Button and button-fastener



Y B. L. DAUBIGNB. Button and Button Fastener.

' No. 226,722. Patented April 20,1880.

INVENTOR WITNESSES: 6% fim/fizdaww w ATTORNEY nPErEfl s, PHOTQLITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON. D C.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BARTOLO L. DAUBIGNE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON AND BUTTON-FASTENER'.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 226,722, dated April 20,1880.

Application filed February 27, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, BARTOLO L. DAUBIGNE, ofWaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and Improved Button-Fastening; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, making part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in button-fastenings;and the invention consists in a button-fastening constructed with acorrugated cone between the shells of the button, whereon the confiningstaple may be clinched 'or upset, as hereinafter more particularlydescribed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents across-section of my button applied to cloth; Fig. 2, a perspective viewof the wire staple for my button; Figs.

, 3 and 4., plan view and section of perforated disk for staple; Figs. 5and 6, under-side view and section of shell for staple; Figs. 7 and 8,plan view and section of back shell of button; Fig. 9, section ofeyelet; Fig. 10, plan, or top view of corrugated disk with conicalcenter for interior of button, and Fig. 11 plan view of front shell ofbutton.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents the face, and B the back shells, of a button. These may bemade of any size or form and from any material desired. Before theseshells are placed and united to gether a disk, C, with a corrugated andconical center, a, is placed between them, the corrugated conical centera slightly protruding into an eyelet or neck, I), fixed to the underside of the back shell, B. When this disk, with its corrugated conicalcenter, is placed in the position just described the front and backshells, A and B, are secured together in any desirable manner. I thenconstruct a staple or fastening device, consisting substantially of awire staple, c, with two prongs, d e, and a disk, f, with perforations 9formed therein, through which the prongs d 0 pass, and a cap or shell,h, constructed so that when the prongs of the staple are inserted intothe holes of the disk and the disk is placed within the cap or shell theseveral parts of the device are firmly secured together by turning theedge of the cap or shell over the diskf.

Now, to apply my button or to fasten it to a garment it is simplynecessary to perforate the garment with the prongs d c of the staple c,placing the eyelet or shank b of the back shell in such position as willenable the prongs to enter within the same until they come in contactwith the corrugated surface of the cone (1, when, force being applied,the ends of the prongs, following the corrugations of the cone, are ledby them to diverge or upset, making a bend extending within or betweenthe front and back shells, A and B, the cor rugations forming guidesthat insure the divergence of the prongs in the proper manner, as shownin Fig. 1, with certainty, uniting in this way the button to the garmentfirmly and expeditiously.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

l. A button constructed with adisk formed with a corrugated cone andplaced between the front and back shells of the button, substantially asand for the purpose described.

2. In a button, a corrugated conical disk in combination with a staple,substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a button-fastening device, a staple combined with a perforateddisk, f, shell or cap h, and corrugated conical disk C, substantially asand for the purpose described.

BARTOLO L. DA'UBIGNE.

Witnesses:

JAMES 0. WHITE, CHAS. W. GILLETTE.

